Assessment Status Notes

Taxonomic notes

Why suggested for a Global Red List Assessment?

Rare conspicuous species associated with peat bogs as one of the most distinctive kind of wetlands and threatened habitats. Endangered by destruction of habitats, climate changes and pollution.

Geographic range

North hemisphere, Europe, North America, Asia. Centre of distribution in Scandinavia.

Population and Trends

Common in Finland elsewhere occasional in subarctic and hemiboreal zone, rare in temperate, very rare to the south of Europe. Rare findings in North America, Japan, Korea. Declining in central and south Europe.

Population Trend: Deteriorating

Habitat and Ecology

In bogs and humid Pinus forests, usually among Sphagnum, or on dried out oligotrophic lake shores, rarely also in humid grassland. Summer to autmn.

Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands [generally over 8 ha]

Threats

H. coccineocrenata is usually associated with peat bogs as one of the most distinctive kind of wetlands and threatened habitats. Endangered by destruction of habitats, climate changes and pollution. Bogs are unique communities that can be destroyed in a matter of days, but require hundreds, if not thousands, of years to form naturally.

Mining & quarryingNatural system modificationsAir-borne pollutants

Conservation Actions

Active measures for the protection of peat bogs. Especialy in southern parts of species areal.